Senior Linux Automation & Red Hat Satellite Engineer

Ubique Systems UK Limited

Greater London

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Ubique Systems UK Limited is seeking anexperienced Linux Infrastructure Automation Engineer to design, implement, automate, and support enterprise Linux services across large environments.

The role covers hands-on Linux administration, OS provisioning, patching, and automation, with integration to security and monitoring platforms. Strong expertise in RHEL, Ansible Platform, Red Hat Satellite is required.

Qualifications

8-15+ years of experience in Linux infrastructure roles.
Extensive hands-on experience with RHEL and lifecycle management.
Experience with automation, provisioning, patching, hardening, and security integrations.

Responsibilities

Administer and support RHEL 7.x/8.x/9.x environments.
Deploy, configure and maintain Linux servers in physical, virtual and cloud environments.
Design and develop automation using Ansible and related tools.
Manage Red Hat Satellite content views, lifecycles, and subscriptions.
Implement CIS benchmarks and security hardening; integrate with cyber security tools.
Support monitoring with SCOM, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, and SIEM solutions.

Skills

Linux administration

Automation design

Scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Troubleshooting

RBAC

Python

Shell/Bash

Tools

Ansible

AWX

Ansible Tower

Red Hat Satellite

Git

GitLab

GitHub

Jenkins

SCOM

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Dynatrace

CyberArk

Qualys

Job description

Experience

8-15+ Years

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Linux Infrastructure Automation Engineer with strong expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite, and enterprise infrastructure management. The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and supporting Linux infrastructure services across large-scale enterprise environments.

The role requires hands-on experience in Linux administration, configuration management, OS provisioning, patch management, automation, and integration with enterprise security and monitoring platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Linux Infrastructure Management

Administer and support RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x environments.
Deploy, configure, and maintain Linux Servers in physical, virtual, and cloud-based environments.
Perform OS installation, upgrades, patching, hardening, and life cycle management.
Troubleshoot Linux OS, Kernel, storage, networking, and performance issues.

Automation & Orchestration

Design and develop automation solutions using Ansible.
Create and maintain playbooks, roles, templates, inventories, and workflows.
Automate server provisioning, configuration management, compliance validation, and application deployments.
Optimize infrastructure processes through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.

Red Hat Satellite Administration

Install, configure, and maintain Red Hat Satellite infrastructure.
Manage content views, life cycle environments, activation keys, host groups, repositories, and subscriptions.
Configure Satellite for automated OS provisioning and patch management.
Perform troubleshooting related to Satellite, Capsule Servers, and repository synchronization.

Ansible Platform Administration

Deploy and manage Ansible Automation Platform/AWX/Ansible Tower.
Configure RBAC, credentials, inventories, job templates, and workflow automation.
Integrate Ansible with Satellite, ServiceNow, VMware, Cloud platforms, and monitoring tools.
Develop reusable automation frameworks and standards.

Security & Compliance

Implement CIS benchmark and security hardening standards.
Support vulnerability remediation activities.
Integrate Linux platforms with CyberArk, LDAP, Kerberos, Active Directory, and PAM solutions.
Support audit, compliance, and governance requirements.

Monitoring & Operations

Integrate Linux systems with enterprise monitoring tools such as:

SCOM
Splunk
Prometheus
Grafana
Zabbix
Dynatrace

Perform incident, problem, and change management activities.
Participate in on-call and critical incident support.

Documentation & Knowledge Management

Create SOPs, operational runbooks, architecture documents, and deployment guides.
Provide KT sessions and mentoring to operations teams.
Support transition-to-support and production go-live activities.

Required Technical Skills

Operating Systems